Make It with You (album)
Make It with You | ||||
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Released | November 1970[1] | |||
Recorded | July 21, Aug. 5 & 27, 1970 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 31:14 | |||
Label | Capitol | |||
Producer | Phil Wright | |||
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Billboard | unrated[2] |
Make It with You is a 1970 album by Peggy Lee. It was arranged and conducted by Benny Golson. The album peaked at No. 194 on the Billboard 200 in December 1970. It was Lee's last album to make the Billboard chart.
Track listing
- "One More Ride on the Merry-Go-Round" (Howard Greenfield, Neil Sedaka) - 2:18
- "The Long and Winding Road" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 3:20
- "That's What Living's About" (Paul Anka) - 2:29
- "The No-Color Time of Day" (Barbara Fried, Milton Schafer) - 2:52
- "Let's Get Lost in Now" (Charles Cane Courtney, Peter Link) - 3:08
- "Make It with You" (David Gates) - 3:18
- "Passenger of the Rain" (Sébastien Japrisot, Francis Albert Lai, Peggy Lee) - 4:00
- "I've Never Been So Happy in My Life" (Lew Spence) - 2:29
- "You'll Remember Me" (Arthur Hamilton, Stan Worth) - 3:15
- "Goodbye" (Gordon Jenkins) - 3:53
Notes
The recording sessions for this album took place at the
Peggy Lee recorded "You'll Remember Me" in February 1970 for
The 2008 Collectors' Choice Music
Lee had recently turned 50 when she recorded this album. She had also won a
In a 1983 interview with the magazine Crescendo International, Benny Golson, the arranger of this album, said:
On the other hand — what a delight to work with Peggy Lee. I mean, she’s a real professional. I had an experience with her that I’ve never had with any other artist as the arranger/conductor of the music for a complete recording session (Make It with You on Capitol). Incidentally, at a time when people were all overdubbing the strings, the horns and everything, she insisted on doing the whole date live. The strings, the whole orchestra was there, and she was singing in the room. We did half of it in L.A. and half in New York. She wasn’t there for the mix, and when she heard it, it had been mixed so that the singing was very loud and you could hardly hear the arrangements – the vocal was just wiping the brass and everything. She said: 'The voice is too loud.' They went back in and remixed it, and she went with ‘em this time – that’s the way it should be.
Of course, that was more money she’d have to pay off, for the remixing of the session, before she’d go into profit. I never got over that. I talked to her about it later; I said: "That was really something, Peggy, that you would do that." Yes, Peggy is very musicianly; she writes good lyrics too.[3]
"Passenger of the Rain" is the theme from the 1969 French film Rider on the Rain (or Le Passager de la Pluie). Lee wrote the English lyrics, which she sings on this album.
References
- ^ AllMusic
- ^ "Album Reviews" (PDF). Billboard. 28 November 1970. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
- ^ Golson, Benny (May 1983). "Variety and Its Virtues". Crescendo International. Retrieved 2008-05-10.